🔗 One From Patrick

I watched a young man get snatched by ICE outside yoga this morning. I filmed the whole thing. His name is Lucio Fabian Navos Nietos. I know this because they just left his passport and all other identification in his car. And left his car. They don’t care who he is. They will deport him anyway.

🔗 A Follow Up From Patrick

If in my last post one were to replace the word “ICE” with “SS” and an obviously Jewish name with an obviously Latino one and imagined him being put on a train instead of a plane… There is no difference. Think on that. We all imagined what we would have done if we lived there then. We live there now.

🔗🎵 ”The most influential prog band", according to Geddy Lee

Not wrong IMHO.

🔗 Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards – Pixel Envy

Hard to disagree as to how rules are not being applied consistently …. Quelle surprise❗️

🔗 Thought Shrapnel

I have no idea if I’m neurodivergent. I don’t think I’ve got ADHD, and all men are probably on the spectrum somewhere. Who’d want to be neuro_typical_ anyway?

My bold - but would surely explain a lot in this household 😂

Just pulling some history to day after reading 🔗 Room temperature from Seth.

Stable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their way to average, which maintains the stability of the system. The same pressures are put on any individual in our culture. Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature.

🖇️ Me - July 2024 - We Are Being Forced To Conform

[🖇️ Me - March 2025 - A post responding to @manton / @devilgate](https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/the-butterfly-effect-is-real.html)

🖇️ Manton’s Original Post

🔗 My morning’s peruse of my RSS feeds was ‘chokka’ with great gruber words … and then ‘other people’ writing about ‘great @gruber’

This is the latter from 🔗 Anil Dash

Not about Gruber per se - all about Markdown - but in so many ways written as a dedication to JG and a really great primer/history on it. Well worth a read.

Final paragraph

The trillion-dollar AI industry’s system for controlling their most advanced platforms is a plain text format one guy made up for his blog and then bounced off of a 17-year-old kid before sharing it with the world for free.

🔗 The Genius Whose Simple Invention Saved Us From Shame at the Gas Station - WSJ Paywall … but am sure it is on Apple News … if you have that access.

Sharing because I was driving with my friend Cliff a few months ago - stopping for gas - and couldn’t recall what side my filler cap was.

What does the arrow say

.. asked Cliff … 🤯

In all my years of driving I had never known this.

John @gruber (at Daring Fireball) seems to have taken over my RSS this morning ….

🔗 How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch (another increasingly important PSA)

🔗 The New York Times Profiles John Ternus

🔗 Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?

🔗 Let’s Call a Murder a Murder

🔗📼 365 Daily Words

Via 🔗 Flowing Data

Not yet decided if this is meaningful or just ‘lightly meta’.